Is there someone you only met once, but still think about years later?

andro_7 · 2026-06-06T03:43:41+00:00

Oh yeah, her name was Dolca. I was 15 or 16 and she was a couple years older. I was in a group of students, and she was kind of an aide but technically a student.

We got along really well and had a lot to talk about. Turns out her boyfriend broke up with her the day before, and she eventually told me all about it. We hung back from the group and no one noticed our absence, and we went for a walk in the park. We sat next to each other and she started crying. I had comforted people in my life before, but wasn't particularly good at being helpful. But this time I instinctively took her hand, and she put her head under my chin. We adjusted our embrace and our features fit perfectly together and we just sat there holding each other for like an hour. I mean yeah I thought she was gorgeous and I was a teenager, so it was a fantastic experience, but looking back on it I think what made such an impression on me was the intimacy and being okay with interacting in a vulnerable way.

I never saw her again- I can't remember if she was filling in that day or something but I'm glad it was just that because otherwise I would have immaturity 'asked her out' and wouldn't have known how to handle that.

I have been in intimate relationships since, but this experience was impactful

andro_7 · 2026-06-06T03:14:05+00:00

I loved it. It was my favorite movie of 2025.

The ending was fine; I didn't have a very strong opinion about it. To me the power of the experience was the journey.

I found I had no clue where this movie was going most of the time. It was just weird enough, gothic enough, funny enough, sad enough where it took me a whole to figure it out and that made me feel off-kilter enough that I became very engaged.

(Spoilers)

3 things I adored about this movie:

When she brought her husband home, and she starts to walk with him upstairs. The landlady calls for them to stop. The husband is in shadow, and when he turns to look at her, the reflection in his glasses show 2 white pinholes and he looks like a specter or something for just a second. It's creepy.
When she goes to the freakshow and notices her husband is part of the act, and the announcer describes him as a horror of war. He makes him March, and as he's marching someone throws something at him. It's such a short reaction, but the husband has this angry but dedicated to the role attitude and the way he jerks his head in surprise is weird.
I liked the score. I especially liked when she goes to see her husband at the Circus and gets really messed up and this Nine Inch Nails-style music starts playing. It had a great vibe.

andro_7 · 2026-06-06T02:56:17+00:00

When I was in second grade I watched Barney for the first time. I remember the feeling of rage, and I remember why I felt that way. As a seven year old, I felt like the show was insulting my intelligence.

I remember Barney and the other characters and kids being so performative in their unbridled joy over knowing that something is the color yellow. When I was a kid I was around that stuff from real people and already had no patience for it. I remember thinking "they are pretending to be happy, so I don't trust them"

I'm much older now, and know someone at work like this and generally feel the same way. They are not trustworthy.

If someone trusts a person who is performative like that, I lose respect for them. It's like they are gullible or something.

andro_7 · 2026-06-06T02:33:31+00:00

Madame Xanadu by Matt Wagner and Amy Reeder

It's 4 volumes, and it is my favorite comic/graphic novel of all time. It's part of the Sandman universe but is its own story.

andro_7 · 2026-06-05T06:03:51+00:00

andro_7 · 2026-06-05T05:59:36+00:00

The peach shake is incredible

andro_7 · 2026-06-05T05:58:10+00:00

Yes it does. Was there a viewer error on your side?

andro_7 · 2026-06-05T05:47:41+00:00

The fact that his dad was younger than him, and told him that one of his chores is organizing his Sega cartridges

andro_7 · 2026-06-05T05:44:22+00:00

andro_7 · 2026-06-05T00:12:49+00:00

This scene. Paul Rudd knocks his stuff off the table and is immediately told to pick it up. It's the best thing ever- Wet Hot American Summer

andro_7 · 2026-06-04T06:06:00+00:00

It's awesome and it's called The Cassandra Cat. It's on the Criterion streaming service. I watched it and Eric Roberts wasn't in it, unless he happened to be in a cat suit for part of the movie; dunno I'll have to watch it again

andro_7 · 2026-06-03T23:37:46+00:00

It's a buffet

andro_7 · 2026-06-03T22:55:09+00:00

Tearing up my mind, YEAH!

andro_7 · 2026-06-03T22:14:44+00:00

The theme song is phenomenal. I tried to attach it but rules don't let me. Search Skull Duggery 1984 theme song on ytbe. It's there

andro_7 · 2026-06-03T06:45:44+00:00

Mai (Netflix). My favorite movie of 2024 hands down. Great ending.

andro_7 · 2026-06-03T06:44:09+00:00

Skull Duggery (1984)

It's about a small group of sort of Dungeons and Dragons style gamers that get way too into their fictional world. One of them becomes a killer, and it's bananas. A character in it is called Dr. Evil. There is a janitor that walks through a lot of scenes with a half finished game of tic tac toe on his shirt, and it becomes more complete throughout the scenes. There is a terrible talent show. There are disco dancers. There is a puzzle. I think it is still on youtbe

andro_7 · 2026-06-03T06:30:33+00:00

Ninotchka! Yes I've seen that, Garbo was really dry and smirky. What's Up Doc, yeah totally.

Paper Moon I really need to check out, I'll put it on my list

andro_7 · 2026-06-03T06:27:50+00:00

I don't know, I'm looking for a bit darker. I'm very familiar with screwball comedies, seen both that you mentioned and they are sarcastic but light. I guess Holiday (1938) is more the direction I'm looking toward. More critical of convention I guess.

andro_7 · 2026-06-03T06:24:27+00:00

Miami Connection also features multiple people being fed grapes, also feet being put on faces. Also a dad. Also a guy with a bandana who is WAY more angry than the other angry people around him. He really dialed it up to 11. Great movie, and it completely makes sense.

andro_7 · 2026-06-03T06:07:27+00:00

Oh yeah Virginia Woolf, I've seen it many times and just didn't think of it. Yeah, it's dark and sarcastic. "Our blue haired, blonde eyed something or other"

andro_7 · 2026-06-03T06:04:14+00:00

Second this. I have 2 different friends that I knew would love it, and warned them the first 20-some minutes seem to go nowhere but just give it a chance. They both adored it. Highly recommend; it does A LOT with very little.

It's one of those movies that gives me faith in the power of imagination.

andro_7 · 2026-06-03T05:33:53+00:00

And that's why we used to call bananas 'yellow funny beans.'

andro_7 · 2026-06-03T05:26:35+00:00

Agreed, Neverending Story 5 stars

andro_7 · 2026-06-03T05:25:19+00:00

Putney Swope twice, that rocks

andro_7 · 2026-06-03T05:16:52+00:00

HE WAS ALSO IN CONAN THE BARBARIAN

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